Maximizing Dollars For Angus Cattle

Maximizing Dollars For Angus Cattle

Susan Allen
Susan Allen

 

Want more money from your calves, who doesn’t, welcome to OpenRange,  I’m Susan Allen after the break I’ll share some interesting data from a popular livestock sales company. One way to ensure your calves bring top dollar is to enroll Angus sired cattle in a program called AngusSource which documents source, group age and Angus Genetics. According to data collected from Superior Livestock Auction from video sales from June through September calves enrolled in Angus source brought $0.91cents more per hundredweight than other age-and source verified programs and it gets even better! Compared to non-verified calves the angus source brought $2.58 cents more per hundredweight. In a nut shell Superior Livestock reported that Angus Source age and source-verified calves earned significantly higher prices in video sales”. Since it’s inception in 2005 more and more producers are enrolling in the program and according to Sara Snider director of AngusSource in 2010 the number of head enrolled grew by 14.3 percent. For those producers who don’t raise cattle that meet Angussource genetic requirements a program called Gateway is available to help ensure top doller for calves. Both of these programs are easily accessed on line through www.angus.org/angussource and user friendly to list cattle all part of the American Angus Assocaitons efforts to help commercial producers market Angus-Sire cattle.
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